WEEKLY BLENHEIM SALE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 249, 22 October 1942, Page 4

WEEKLY BLENHEIM SALE.

SMALLER YARDING; HIGHER PRICES. There was a smaller yarding of fat stock at yesterday afternoon's weekly Blenheim sale and as, in addition, there was more outside competition than usual, an advance in prices was recorded. Store stock was yarded in smaller numbers and realised satisfactory prices. Detailed quotations are as follows: FAT STOCK PRICES. Thirteen ewes 20s, 17 hoggets 27s 4d, 9 hoggets 26s ld, 1 hogget 26s lOd, 15 ewes 21s ld, 15 ewes 20s 4d, 3 wethers 24s 4d, 2 ewes 32s 7d, 10 ewes 25s lOd, 7 ewes 28s 7d, 10 ewes 26s ld, 10 ewes 30s 4d, 7 wethers 36s lOd, 5 ewes 34s lOd, 4 hoggets 31s. 7 ewes 30s ld, 12 wethers 33s 4d, 4 wethers 35s ld, 2 wethers 29s 4d, 2 wethers 25s 4d, 13 wethers 25s ld, 13 ewes 22s 4d, 5 ewes 22s lOd, 2 ewes 20s lOd, 20 ewes 23s 7d, 9 ewes 34s lOd, 9 hoggets 27s 4d, 9 hoggets 27s lOd, 6 hoggets 27s, 10 hoggets 26s ld, 10 shorn ewes 21s 7d, 5 shorn ewes 26s ld, 1 woolly ewe 25s lOd, 6 shorn ewes 20s 7d, 7 shorn ewes 24s 4d, 8 shorn ewes 21s 4d, 3 shorn ewes 24s 3d, 3 shorn ewes 20s lOd, 2 shorn ewes 23s 4d, 7 shorn hoggets 21s, 7 s. wethers 24s 7d, 3 hoggets 20s, 15 shorn ewes 21s ld, 11 s. ewes 24s ld, 50 s. hoggets 21s 7d to 21s lOd, 6 s. ewes 20s 4d, 11 s. ewes 25s 7d, 11 s. wethers 24s 4d, 14 s. wethers 26s 4d, 15 ewes 29s lOd, 10 wethers 34s lOd, 13 wethers 32s 7d, 7 ewes 28s 7d, 13 ewes 26s lOd, 10 ewes 34s lOd, 1 hogget 26s lOd, 21 wethers 32s lOd, 2 ewes 34s 4d, 2 ewes 27s lOd, 3 ewes 27s 7d, 1 s. hogget 20s 7d. STORE STOCK PRICES. Dalgety and Co. report saies as follows:— Twenty- one hoggets 18s 3d, 26 ewe hoggets 22s 6d, 19 wethers 20s 3d, 43 wethers 20s 6d, 64 two-tooth wethers 15s, 30 cull wethers 10s 6d, 13 Romney rams £3 3s. Clouston and Pyne report the following saies: — Sixty-nine s.m. halfbred ewes and wethers and 70 Southdown lambs 16s ld all counted, 2 halfbred ewes and 2 lambs 12s 9d all counted.